Haha I don't know how should I describe my sleep last night. I slept at 12:30, woke up at 3, slept again, woke up at 4, slept again, woke up at 5, slept again, woke up at 6, slept again, woke up at 6:45.

I kept thinking I was late for this morning >.< and time seemed to pass really quickly in my dreams. But still, when I woke up at 6:45, i felt quite awake.

All these while I've been waking up at 8am+ for my weekends, and wasting my time until i go for piano lesson at 9:15. Well today I went to play badminton with a friend, and that invigorating exercise made me more so much more energetic and awake. =D

Badminton ftw! Haha I think my footwork is not bad, I can reach any corner of my side of the court in 2 strides =D but my returns sucks T.T Especially for overhead and backhand.

Wahsei, why you make me run so much, when most of the time I hit the shuttlecock back at you so you didn't need to run at all >.< Haha yes, I really don't mind but next time I'm going to make you run as much as me =P

I think I almost sprained my ankle twice haha, got 2 times I landed with my foot in a funny shape. But I'm like immune already, ankle sprains (the sideways one) can go off after a few hours, unless its those sprain from front to back one (ouch). I think in total so far the number of ankle sprains I got is like ~20+?

Kk going to do my MEP higher performance program notes then zao off to play piano liao..

Omg.

OMG.

OMFG!

Those were my precise words when I saw my piano teacher’s sms:
”Hong Rui got Distinction for his cello exam.”

Oh my gawd.

Haha I think I’m starting to like Oboist examiners who don’t know anything about string instruments now =D My teacher had 4 students taking exam that day, I was the one that screwed up the worst, and I was the only one that got the distinction.

I checked that score online, so I don’t know the breakdown yet, only knew that I got 130 total. ^ ^ Haha scraped Distinction! My first first first Distinction in my 9 years of learning music!!

I think it’s like last year’s MEP EOY practical. While everyone else played piano, I happily took out my cello, and that surprised Ms Goh as it was something new, giving the judges a break from the boring piano pieces. >.< Well so I got 42/50 and became a “High Scorer” even though I totally didn’t deserve it. =P

So this time, since that Oboist examiner never had a single cellist examinee before (I presume), I guess my performance was interesting? O.o Even though I was super out of tune and the whole piece really really sucked, I guessed I managed to bluff my way through like I did to Ms Goh last year. =D

Dang, but this tactic can only use once, and it really depends on the examiner. (Haha good luck to Max who played Bagpipe for his EOYs)

Shall post the breakdown of marks once I get it some time soon.


PS: And my MEP EOY practical this year confirm gg.
PPS: Yes I’ve decided to go for MEP in JC.

O.o I dunno what's with this quiz. So many people are doing it. Saw it on Hannah's blog like one month ago, then pearl, then jianxiong, kenneth, joel, kangjie, (and a lot more) and recently dennis. I guess the fact that the questions are not there but your name is makes the person curious >.<

1. Laiweng
2. Ng Jing Xian (since K1)
3. No one. I want to shape my own!
4. Mrs. Noorizan Albar XD
5. Winston Tan
6. Jon Shin
7. Zong Yi! Deputy head prefect (with nice eyebrows hur hur) Always kena saboed during assemblys
8. Jonathan Tan Rui Rong
9. Laiweng
10. Laiweng. omg yes
11. Dunno.. I don't think most of them are serious anyway
12. 刘亦非！ sorry is that considered cheating? ^.^
13. Biquan
14. W.L. JianXiong, with his imba forearms (woah..)
15. Dennis. Lol ironic, a female *****?
16. Zong Yi
17. Chong Han Guang
18. Dunno...
19. Zong Yi! Model Rafflesian omg
20. Xin Hong
21. Hans Airy (or Hairy Ass)
22. Convict Josh
23. Practically anyone can boss me around T.T
24. Mr. Trevor Sze >.< (Chong han guang doesn't count, its all talk no action)
25. Faizal, omg ultimate flirt
26. Anyone who gets wowed by 1-hand rubik's cubing
27. Laiweng! To her CCA, her commitments, all those small cute kids >.<
28. Eh dunno. I don't usually go for those.
29. Got ppl in mind, but no names here =P
30. Good luck for EOYs! I'm so going to own MEP written paper =D

That's blown it.

After screwing up my cello exam last week, I just repeated history during today's MEP eoy prac. (Ouch but this time mainly my fault lah >.<) Before I left the room, I glanced over Ms Goh's shoulder to see her giving me a 6 and 7 in the first 2 sections

my overall grade is probably less than 35/50, around 33-34 i think. Argh! So now I have to go full steam for MEP written EOYs..

95/100? Possible? Probable?

I really don't get it.. why is it that I can practise cello 2 hours a day to near-perfect, and then make a big flop in the actual performance? MEP is the only subject I wanted a 4.0 so badly for, and I can't even fulfil my wish.

Now this leads me to another question. Should I take MEP in JC?

My heart says yes. I do love the subject.
My mind says no, its not feasible.
My body says cmi.
Dennis says no.
My mum doesn't say anything, but her actions hints a no.
Ms Goh doesn't look convinced.

But still, my heart says yes. Actually I'm not sure.

2 of my friends are already dropping music to go for P.C.M.E. Should I do the same?

The only bloody reason why my piano still stands in my living room is because I'm still taking music while my sister and brother have dropped them a few years ago. I'm not good at composing. I suck at practical. I'm not a committed mugger. Is music the path for me? Its like 心有余而力不足. Look at most of the people taking MEP in JC, Thomas Ang, Shawn Neo, Adriel Chang, and Jon Shin. They are all good at their practical and stuff, and already have like 1 foot across the boundary to their music careers.

So what is someone like me, the CelloLoser who cannot even bow his cello properly in straight lines doing in there?

9 years of learning music. Should I just give it all up just like that? At least 10k has already been invested in me during these 9 years.

Ok lets just say I keep my choices open and I take P.C.M.Mep. That keeps my other interest in engineering open too. But that is a hell lot of work. Balancing 2 hardcore sciences, maths, and the most taxing subject in the whole JC syllabus - MEP.

Really, should I take it? Am I able to make sure I come home everyday at 7pm, eat dinner/bathe until 8pm, practise the cello and piano until 10pm, then mug my other subjects until 1-2am? Am I able to do this everyday for the year?

I've made the mistake of dropping the subjects I loved (i.e Geog and Bio) in sec 3 to opt for subjects I THOUGHT i could do better in. Will I be making the same mistake? But will I be making a bigger mistake to hold on to this seemingly unstable "passion" of mine, only to drop it some time later?

We are always told to follow our hearts, but what if my heart is wrong? I am an easily influenced person (ahem Dennis) with terribly weak willpower. I'm not sure how long I can hold on to this combi.

Any suggestions?

Damn it, the throbbing headache that I got during 29th August is sort of back..

Cello exam today.

This is the first time after an exam that I feel like swearing, laughing, and banging my head on the wall and crying at the same time.

Seriously, the whole exam was a joke.

Ok, 11.15: I reached my pianist's (aka my piano teacher) place. Ran-through the pieces several times, they were not bad. Then he started testing my scales, and winced at my out of tune notes that happens like around 33.3% of the time (the last octave >.<) Well, the cello is the hardest instrument to do scales on (at least Double Basses only need to do 2 octaves) This was when he kajiao me regarding my scales and said, "Wah skadee later you kena an oboist (quite random) for the examiner that doesn't know anything about cello."

3.20: Reached the examination venue; Verve music school. Then, I started reading the examiner's information, and yes, I kena-ed an oboist -.- omg, Deja Vu.

3.40: I entered the examiner room, and it was really unlike anything i've seen before. The examiner room was a DANCE ROOM. You know those with mirrors on all 4 sides as walls? Then in the centre got one table for her (yes its a her, my first female examiner in my 9 years music experience), and 2 pianos at the side.

Started with the pieces, and this was where I got pissed and felt like swearing. Wtf, what's wrong with my piano teacher?! Walaoeh, for the whole of past 2 weeks, like every 2 or 3 days, we will come down and practice together. Each time, the pieces are smooth and there aren’t any major problems. Started the first piece with the Shostakovich, and towards the middle section he started screwing up, and that affected me too. I was waiting for his left hand for the strong downbeat chord and he never comes in / comes in wrongly for that whole part. And that was supposed to be the climax of the piece where I start playing from like middle C all the way till the C 2 octaves above. Since the notes are so high and piercing, that extract was one where "you either own or get owned". And yes I got owned.

Piece 2 was Beethoven, which was the piece that was the least technically demanding but requires the most coordination. Again, I didn't know what's wrong with my piano teacher. He forgot to come in at some parts, and since it was like "call and response", we were like waiting for each other. >.<

Scales:
Hahaha she started with the G major separate bows, which was my most confident and most in tune scale in the whole syllabus. Well, that gave me confidence and scales were generally alright, (except for Bb melodic minor slurred, which I like totally forgot).

Then we reached the last category of scales – which was double stops. There were 3 scales here; in 3rds, in 6ths, or octaves. I was like praying omg pls pls pls don’t choose octaves, phew, she chose 6ths.

And then octaves -.-

And then 3rds.

Walao! This examiner really never test cello before >.< Supposed to like choose 1 out of the 3, okay maybe 2 still can. But wtf? All 3? I think she thought these double stop scales are one category each individually -.- In total i kena tested like ~15 scales?!

Sight reading:
Another joke!

She really really never had another cellist before in her career as an examiner. She took the sight reading book, flipped all the way to the end, and asked me to play an extract.

Well, that extract was manageable, only tenor clef nia, so I managed to play it quite well. As I was playing, she was like squinting at the replica extracts on her table. After I finished, she told me, “Sorry, sorry, that was the wrong extract.”

I looked at the top of the page. It says “Double Bass”

Lol, we had a good laugh together, and she said, “Well, at least that sounded nice?” =D

Haha, after that I played the correct extract lah, got until treble clef, but since I had 4 years of RISE training + that bloody Shostakovich in my first piece, the sight reading should score quite well.

AURAL:

Omg omg! This is the biggest joke.

First part: Sing the bass line
She played the extract twice, and then I started to sing. And after that, she was like “Sorry, you voice was a bit deeper than I expected. I couldn’t hear clearly. Lets try that again.”

-.- At least I got another hearing of the extract. But I still sang out of tune and completely wrongly.

Second part:
Chords and cadences. Well I was bluffing my way through, but should be quite okay.

Third part: Modulation
Okay, here she will play 2 extracts, then I need to say what key it modulated to. For the first extract, my answer was Dominant minor. I think its correct lah.

Second extract; the key was D minor. My answer was relative major. And she asked me for the exact key. My mind was really in a whirl and I was stuck, then I remembered “A minor and C major", and the interval was like a third.

So I said, B major, like D -> C -> B, (okok please don’t laugh, there’s more at the end). Immediately after I said that, I suddenly showed an expression of uncertainty. Well, the examiner was kind, so she asked “Do you want to stick with that answer? Or is there something else you want to tell me?”

I recalled that there was supposed to be a Bb, so I said “Bb major”. ARGH!! *Bangs my head on the table* Lol, ppl give me second chance and I still wrong, wtf how can I be so dumb??!?

Answer was F major, like D -> E -> F. T.T

Fourth part: Characteristics of the extract
Omg, my aural fail. But this last part must own. Well, most of the examiners mark based on overall impression anyway, so if you can score this part, at least it could erase my previous embarrassment >.<

Lol, the question was "Say anything you like.."

And the piece was? Haha something that I knew!! Lol, out of the ~5 pieces tested for aural, I already could identify 2 of them. And yes! Jackpot!! Well, since the question was say anything you like, I just shot my mouth away and start impressing her with everything I knew, and well, she was quite impressed.

Dang. Now i really want to laugh, bang my head and swear at the same time. Seriously this exam was such a joke hahah. To think I actually entered the exam with the objective of getting Distinction, and since my pieces screwed up sooo badly, I really must hope hope hope hope hope I can retain my merit.

21+23+26+17+18+15=120? Argh! Please please please!

Nevertheless, this exam was like my most enjoyable one (other than the pieces) in my 9 years of learning music.

Wah I shouldn't be here, but I'm bored, and kinda pissed.

Cello exam in 2 days, and my finger joints still hurt. My cello makes an irritating loud buzzing sound when you play the D string (due to me accidentally cracking my cello last year), and it really affects my playing. And sometimes the buzzing sounds just drowns the main line and makes it sound super messy, especially the cadenza part for Sammartini's Cello Sonata in G. >.<

Crap, and I just realised today that there is MEP EOY practical programme notes to be done. Zzz, thats another day gone from my schedule again, but really have to get these programme notes done properly. They actually influence the final mark by a lot.

But what made me come here and blog is essentially the stupid SanLu milk powder scandal that is going around now. Walao, I'm damn pissed with those people involved in the manufacturing! 偷工减料 until like that, just because of money, they can poison over 1250 babies, and so far 2 of them died already. (Fact that the company already knew the milk was contaminated weeks before they recalled all the products made it even worse. Why so corrupted?!?)

If its some adult slimming product or something maybe I don't really care so much, its partly their own fault for buying that product without checking properly. But babies leh! Those cute adorable babies don't even have a damn choice, and before they can even start to talk properly, you go poison them and make them have kidney stones in their body. Their entire lives are just screwed like that! >.< And all these while they can't do a single damn thing other than cry (making their parents think they're hungry and feed them more milk)

Seriously, when ppl do business, the right way to success is going the right way.

Poor babies.. T.T

Hong Rui is finally going to be serious. Seriously.

Yes, I just realized how screwed I am >.< Look at the different events coming:
From now until Thursday, I will be practising cello like siao for my cello exam.
From next Thursday until next next monday, I will be practising cello like siao for my MEP prac.
From next next Monday until next next next Thursday, I will be practising piano like siao for my MEP higher performance component.

Dang it, why didn't I just choose essay component and kope one from my piano teacher..

Alright, and when I really want to try and mug, now I get distracted by the following stupid things. Here are the top 4:
#1: FACEBOOK (mainly the Attack! application, also known as the board game Risk.)
I'll play like at least 1-2 games a day, and thats like 1 to 2 hours gone)
#2: Scrabble (from the Internet Scrabble Club server)
When I stop playing Attack!, usually I'll switch to ISC, and thats at least 1-2hours gone again.
#3: Rubik's Cube
Damn it, I told myself to stop playing since last Sunday, but I still spend like half to one hour on it everyday >.<
#4: Handphone games (Mainly games that I thought I have quitted but found the fun in playing them again, like Worms Forts, Quadrapod, Sudoku and Realfootball08)
Wah sian, these stupid games suck out another like 1 hour + from what's left of my time already.

Seriously, just like look at the stats of my Sudoku game: total time spent= ~1500mins. Like wtf?! Thats like 25 hours. If you add in Worms, Ancient Empires & Real football (omfg, these 2 games are the ultimate), i can probably total up to one week. You throw in all the games that I have played since p1. LF2, RLF2, Neopets, Battleon, Maple(argh), Kol, Dota (damn!), MHA (I really hate you!), Attack! and many many more (yes my cube, I do like around 100 solves a day), I can like easily tally up to 1 year worth of time.

Wtf, I've spent more than 1/16 of my 16 years of my life on games!!!?!!????!

Now since I get distracted from homework and to games so easily, the best way is of course to make sure these games don't exist =D since I'm somebody with a super weak will.

Yes, so..
I removed that damn Attack! application yesterday night. (ouch, so many kills, conquests and points gone just like that)
I uninstalled ISC
I removed Dota from my computer
I deleted a lot of handphone games
I dismantled my cube and let my mum, dad, sis, and bro keep 5 pieces each while I keep the core.

=D

Now if I want to play something, I shall go play my cello/piano. If i want to take a break from homework (these breaks used to last 3-4hours -.-) I just go recline in my reclining sofa and listen to one run through of Stravinsky Rite of Spring (that's 15 minutes). I would smash that TV at home if I'm permitted to, I would uninstall MSN messanger if my bro need not use it too.

Damn it, now the only thing obstructing me is my mum turning on the stupid tv every night to watch pointless drama serials. But at least I arrange all my piano/cello practising time during that time she's watching TV, so at least I won't get so distracted so much.

Less than 4 weeks to EOYs now, 25 days to be exact. And if I set aside 1-2hours of piano/cello pracitse a day, i only have like 2-3 hours to mug a day. (Crap, why we cannot pon school to mug like ahem*) 25 days: 6 days for Maths, 4 days for MEP, 4 days for Physics, 4 days for Chem, 4 days for History, 3 days for SS. Argh die!!

And here's where Hong Rui shall find the force to mug and salvage what's left of his GPA (of course with the absence of Dark Forces now ^_^ ) Good luck to everyone else out there who still have problems with their subjects and especially trigo =P

Gogogo! 4.0! (Actually realistically if I hit my target of 3.69 I'll be over the moon)

Stupid convo on msn XD

dennis. says:
O.o
dennis. says:
tired.
dennis. says:
|-)
| hongrui | says:
ok lor suan
| hongrui | says:
can put emotions
dennis. says:
- -
dennis. says:
suan
dennis. says:
can type
| hongrui | says:
suan lah, got status
dennis. says:
suan got modulus to your name
| hongrui | says:
suan lah can type full stop behind your name
dennis. says:
- -
| hongrui | says:
suan got eyes
dennis. says:
- -
dennis. says:


| hongrui | cello exam in 7 days says:
suan can leave blank and still get 30/30 for math cct.

Okok, this is going to be my last post for the time, after which i shall be a Willette and not blog at all for over a month until EOYs end.

Today's history lesson was quite boring as usual. Mrs Doreen Ang, or let us just call her Dang for short, was monotonous and also tried a few failed attempts at lame jokes. About 1/4 of the class was sleeping, and that of course included our dear assistant head boy: Zong Yi =D

So Yuda (Yu Qiang's brother), got really bored and started thinking of a game to play. It goes like this: Try and kope Zong Yi's items without him realising. Pen/Pencil = 1 point. Correction Tape = 2 points. Files = 10 points.

Sounds like a good idea? Alright so here we went, Round I.
I koped a pen. 1 point
I koped another pen. 1 point
I got really greedy and took 2 correction tapes on my next try. Ah crap, I fumbled and Zong Yi woke up.
Round I: FAIL

It was quite hard for me actually, cos Zong Yi wasn't exactly sitting next 2 me, there was like a 1-meter distance between the both of us. So we decided to employ Dennis, who was sitting right beside Zong Yi (and is known for his skilled fingers that quickly unbuttons the shirts of innoncent young Rafflesians during class tau-pok)

Round II:
Dennis koped a pen. (We all smile)
He koped another pen (We start laughing)
He koped like another 4-5 pens/correction tapes, and started to go for bigger stakes.
Ok, so he started flipping at Zong Yi's file in front of him while he's awake, and the moment Zong Yi's head nodded off to sleep, the file was safe in our "treasury". (ROFL)
Another file and a few more pens dissapeared from Zong Yi's table.
Round II: ~30 points.

Haha!! Pro Dennis =D Of course we returned Zong Yi all his items lah, but it was seriously damn funny. Zong Yi never realised until there was one part of the lesson where Dang said was super important and he wanted to take notes, only to find his pen missing >.< I even wanted to kope his whole bag at one time but it was a few cm too far away. =P

The bell rang after that, marking the end of the day...

And to give you a glimpse of how powerful is Dang's aura of boringness? Here's a picture featuring Kakiong, Joseph and Li Young doing syncronised sleeping. (It was totally unplanned, I just happen to take a photo)

Rubik's Cube Singapore Open 2008.

I focused on one category, the One-Hand (OH). I got 4th. Times: 31.81, 40.34, 34.94. Since they took the best 2 out of 3, my average was 33.375.

Lost to the third placed guy by 0.3 seconds, his average was like 33.105seconds. Aiyah! Should have worked more on the picking up and slamming down, and my last PLL shouldn't have taken my own sweet time..zzz.. It was like ~26sec when I was at pll, then i remembered one of the competitors was like "Oh no." Then my cube jammed abit and I took my own sweet time and it became 34.94 >.< Yeah, that guy then ran all the way to my side of the stage and went like "Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Ouch. Ouch Ouch. OUCH!

I'm sure I focus on one category i don't get anything >.<, ppl focus on everything they get everything. But still, but see how much time they put in, probably like play cube 5-8hours everyday, whilst I'm just playing a bit during lessons every day =P

Shouldn't have stopped cubing during last year nov-dec hols, and this year feb to may. Only resumed in like mid june, then after 2 months of playing abit then go for competition liao >.<

Btw, I'm like the best OH cubist other than the officials. If they don't allow officials to join, I'll get 1st =P hehe. But still, I'm quite contented since I did my usual standards and a bit higher than my expected timing.

(But still!! 0.3 seconds O.o)

Okok forget the past, I'M NOT GOING TO PLAY THAT DAMN CUBE AGAIN UNTIL END OF EOYS IN SEPT 21st!!!! Must keep to this pact, since I've broken all my others without fail. Really, I'm addicted to the cube also, and I dunno what I'm going to do during math/chem/cle/chinese lessons anymore.

Congrats to that HCI guy who swept all the categories. Haha what are you going to do with 1.1k worth of Toy's R Us voucher >.< I might be back next year, I might not be, for now I really need to start focusing on my studies again after wasting this stupid sept hols.

Ah acknowledgments, firstly thanks dennis for participating in the 2x2, where he achieved like an average of 12 seconds? Probably could have gotten like 2nd or 3rd (if officials don't take part again >.<) Then after his event which started at 9.30, he stayed all the way to support me until like 6pm.

Next, Xuewen, who didn't participate in anything, but being that good friend, still came down and support me =D Then Charles who played in 3x3, 3x3 OH, and 2x2, who stayed there throughout the whole competition, and even offered to lend me his cube for 3x3 OH and just sacrifice that round.

Still got Ms Juliana Tay who informed me about the competition. Bryan Choong who first taught me how to do the cube =D And Wanchein who was my main driving factor in that crazy cube addiction for the past year (which carried on to this year).

And of course, Laiweng =D who sent that nice sms to encourage me, and that offline message yesterday night. Really honoured to have such a friend like you =D

Alright, that's all folks, I'M NOT GOING TO PLAY THAT DAMN CUBE AGAIN UNTIL END OF EOYS!!! Slap me if I do that again during lessons.

Aww. Tagged by Laiweng to do this quiz cos my blog's too stagnant. (Sorry, I only just read that blog post >.<)



TEN things you wish you could say to TEN different people right now

1. CONTROL YOURSELF AND STOP WASTING TIME UNNECESSARILY
2. Start doing MEP rite of spring
3. I'm going for Rubik's Cube Singapore Open competition in a few hours time and I hope i get something
4. Calm down! You can do it
5. Haha I didn't know I have so many neighbours around my vicinity
6. Good luck Dennis
7. Stop thinking so lowly of me, feeling that whatever I do is a flop. Really, stop.
8. You have no fats, no muscles and no brains.
9. Sleep early, rest well
10. GPA 3.82!!

NINE things about yourself

1. I play the Rubik's cube. Specialize in One Hand
2. I play the Cello and Piano. Hope to specialize in cello, but I think I fail in both
3. I love music! Even though I don't really practise my instruments, I still do.
4. I'm in RISE
5. I'm in CSCO (at least for a few months every year)
6. I got an IQ of 143.
7. I'm a super visual thinker
8. So I do well in games like Risk, Scrabble, Cube, Sudoku, but I suck in Academics
9. Actually I don't, that's mainly cos I'm super LAZY!

EIGHT ways to win my heart (mainly unchanged from Laiweng's standards)
1. If I like you (uh duh)
2. Has a decent face and attitude
3. Is on the same frequency as me! i.e. You don't talk in a way that makes me roll my eyes every minute.
4. Shorter than me MUAHAHAHAH. And at least same age la.
5. You're nice to everyone. :D Though cannot be too nice la, of course must be the nicest to me HAHAH.
6. You cannot smoke, or drink excessively, or gamble yuckkk.
7. Hahahaha is able to entertain me when I'm bored.
8. Actually all of the above are crap, but true to a certain extent. I'm not exceptionally picky, I'm not popular, which doesn't give me right to be picky too.

SEVEN things that cross your mind a lot
1. I want to be in control of my LIFE!
2. What do I want to do for a career?
3. Why am I always the one soloing RE?
4. Why am I so easily influenced/addicted/distracted?
5. What is my purpose in life?
6. Why am I only able to study when I feel like it, or why I only feel like studying at certain times.Why can't I force myself to study. (haha!!)
7. Who's that special someone for me? >.<

SIX things I wished I never did

1. Slack in sec 3
2. Play handphone/cube/read during lessons (actually some of them are really pointless =P)
3. Drop Bio (>.< dennis)
4. Play Dota, Maple, Kol, Battleon, Neopets (in my 10 years as a student)
5. Stop cubing during the Nov-Dec hols last year, and during feb-june this year.
6. Added that damn application on Facebook (MHA)

FIVE turn-offs

1. SMOKERS. ):
2. Hypocrites
3. Arrogant asses
4. Excessive bitching bitches (Ahem Zhiyi)
5. Tattoos

FOUR turn-ons
1. Having fun with friends and such. (: Laughing! :D
2. Producing good music.
3. Getting back a good result. (((:
4. Puzzles/Mind boggling strategic games like Scrabble/Sudoku/Cube/Risk/Chess..etc

THREE words to sum up my life
1. Wanting to achieve but fail to stay concentrated for long
2. Thrifty
3. Self-reflection time

TWO things I won’t die till I do
1. Work hard and get my 4As for A levels
2. Compose that piece of music i always wanted to write (haha cannot tell you or you kope my idea >.<)

ONE last confession
1. Mum, Dad, I love you. Even though I don't show it, I really do. <3

Just came back from AMK hub Cathay, after watching <钱不够用II> with my family. The movie was quite crude, super simple, and if you don't understand dialect, you probably lost like 20% of the content and humour.

(Spoiler warning)
But I still enjoyed it pretty much, and honestly it was quite memorable. The parts where the grandmother emo and sobs in the toilet really stirs your heart, and the dramatic moments like when she turns her head around after realizing she got dumped in an Old folk's home, and when she detached life support system to sacrifice herself in order to safe her granddaughter was just so touching.

I feel that Jack Neo is like some Stephen Chow wannabe, at least he sort of manages the effect of you trying to laugh and cry at the same time, like how I felt in some parts of CJ7. The lyrics of the songs, especially the one about the mother's selfless sacrifice over the years was really quite original and moving.


Well I don't usually go to the cinema for movies.. Most of you guys probably go like once a week? a fornight? a month? The first time I watched a movie in a cinema was I Not Stupid in primary 4, and since then, in these 7 years, I've only watched like 8 movies, thats around 1 a year O.O

Kk here's the list:
2002 I Not Stupid
2003 Home Run
2005 Batman Begins
2006 I Not Stupid 2
2006 X-men 3
2008 CJ7
2008 National Treasure
2008 Money not Enough 2

And other than Batman Begins, X-men 3 and National Treasure, the rest are all Chinese films, and 4 out of 5 of them are locals from Jack Neo. With the exception of Home Run which was a school outing, and Batman Begins which was a RISE outing, all the others are movies which I watched with my family.

Yeah and you know my mum, she insists on movies which she thinks has "educational values" in it, and relates well to us, which is we watched the 3 jack neo moves and CJ7 (instead of Kungfu Gua Lan, which was at the same time >.<) But all these movies, yeah they have actually sent some touching message across one way or another, and sometimes I find that more valuable than just no. 1 box office showcases and hollywood blockbusters.